MAY 10, 1958 ers Present Two Shows Tonight AN LOVERS pledge their troth cheduled for this weekend. In ►io and Nancy Harting, Portia. one play of the Noel Coward trilogy PHI DELTA THETA WELCOMES Sunday afternoon from 24 kiv ' q ~...__:- )- e ",) ' (i r KAPPA SIGMA -..5 ' f •-* P l. b 1 If' ON THEIR DAY ALPHA GAMMA RHO honors "MOM" with an Open House and Tea Welcomes MOTHERS SATURDAY, MAY 10, 1958 MOTHERS PI BETA PHI welcomes Parents. to . a . breakfast In the suite Sunday9.lo:3o Mother's Day weekend visitors to the campus will have an op portunity to see one of two Play ers' productions. "The Merchant of Venice" will be presented at 8 tonight ° in Schwab Auditorium and "To night at 8:30" will be presented at 8 tonight at Center Stage. "The Merchant of Venice" is the first Shakespearean play done here in a number of years. The set shows the acting area of an Elizabethan stage in con temporary form, with two levels and inner and outer stages on each level. Costittnes are designed in Ital ian Renaissance style. "Tonight at 8:30" is a trilogy by Noel Coward, consisting of three I=act plays. The plays, although unrelated, were written to appear on the same program. The trilogy consists of two com edies, "H ands Across the Sea," "Red Peppers" and "Still Life,", a more serious play. Coward originally wrote nine plays under the title "Tonight at 8:30," which were intended to be done in repertory. Although some of the cast have roles in two or three of the plays, the leads are all taken by different persons. The play is done in• arena style. .. . ,- 1# ,• , -.: ~, 0, , + . . . in the Alpha Phi suite, Sunday afternoon from-1:30 to 3:30 6014 bit ii r trqi i ,-,-. I IP4 \--. -: 7'.-' rL, -----,. , 41•.'" There's a tea . . . . in the _,, , • • BETA SIGMA OMICRON suite Sunday afternoon from 1:30 to 3:00 ' THE DAILY COLLEGIAN. STATE COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA 3 Drill Teams To Vie for Cup A tri-service drill meet featur ing drill teams from Navy and Air Force ROTC units and Per shing Rifles will be held at 1:45 p.m. tomorrow at Beaver Field. Each of the competing teams has been practicing almost daily throughout the past year to de velop and perfect spectacular rou tines. One of these teams will be judged "best" on the basis of originality, coordination, precision and other factors. and will receive the Milton S. Eisenhower trophy The teams are also competing for I a tri-service trophy. The program will begin with se lections played by the Army RO TC Band. Actual competition will commence promptly at 2 p.m. and should be finished by 3:30 p.m. During an intermission, there will be an exhibition by the Air Force ROTC "Angel Flight" girls. In case of rain, the drill meet ' will be cancelled. If weather is threatening, radio stations will an nounce at 1 p.m. whether the meet is cancelled Sunday. The public has been invited to see the spectacle. The entire drill meet will be broadcast over Radio Station WDFM. The 1) G's Welcome MOTHERS breakfast in suite Sunday 9-10:30 110 Simmons Hall That's MOM! . . . and she is invited to a tea in her honor . . . DELT Serenades Greeks StartedMother'sDay To Honor Fertility of Spring The ancient Greeks may be credited for beginning a festi val which is known today the world over as Mother's Day. The festival began as a religious ceremony among the primitive Celtic races of Western Europe who worshipped Cyly4e,lspring—and the crowning of a Queen. the mother of the gods, and hon-i Alla • y I a ored her by building Druid altars • According to England arose legend. people on May Morn in forests and caves. ling at dawn and went out to pick About 250 B.C. the festival was flowers which they put in wicker introduced into Rome and the baskets. They then carried their Ides of March festival of H ;garlands to the Village Green ilaria,: where they danced and made which lasted three days, was be-, merr y all day long. gun. The celebration in those da y s i From these ancient customs and was quite different from ours to-1 ;celebrations we today have re day. tained some ideas, and maypole The festival was made a musi-, winding and May Queen crown cal holy day during the Medieval ing can be associated with the times with maypole winding—a annual Mother's Day observance celebration of the fertility of in many countries and localities. PYROSE SORORITY WELCOMES MOTHERS to Breakfast 9:30 - 11:00 am Tea 1:30 - 3:30 p.m. .-t PHI EPSILON PI i ... L ., ", 'il 7 l extends an invitation , i • 11)7 r/ , i < - 4 - 1,.-_, 44 to everyone to attend their annual :., 'tiv to I milk .0 -, Mothers Day Dance • Featuring The Continentals For Our Parents . . . ZETA TAU ALPHA is having a breakfast at 9 a.m. tea in the afternoon Suite: 2nd ff. Simmons Welcome THETA KAPPA PHI MOTHERS to a Banquet KAPPA KAPPA GAMMA Welcomes its Mothers and Fathers Mother's Day Breakfast Sunday 9-10:30 WELCOME TRIANGLE MOTHERS PAGE FIVE
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